Month: April 2024
UHC Notably Absent from Congressional Hearing
Quotes from Texas Medicine 4/19/2024, Emma Freer Article
“The attack has exposed the vulnerability in our health care system and the disproportionate burden placed on physician practices by insurers, government payers, and third-party vendors,” Dr. Bruggeman told lawmakers.
“The Change outage was disruptive to the business of my practice, but most importantly it was disruptive to my patients,” he said. “Every minute my staff spent trying to reconcile [electronic remittance advice] with received payments, assessing which patients received incorrect bills, [and] resubmitting prior authorizations is time taken away from patient care.”
“To add insult to injury, some of these practices were purchased by Optum during the crisis,” he said. “There were even reports of Optum using the financial emergency caused by the cyberattack on its own subsidiary as legal justification to expedite its acquisition of physician practices.”
In the meantime, Dr. Bruggeman called on Congress to pass legislation that would insulate physician practices from industry consolidation and other existential threats.
“Allowing physicians to practice in the setting that is best for them, their patients, and the broader community should be the hallmark of our United States health care system,” he said. “Instead, the increase in administrative burden, including the new threat of potential cyberattacks, makes such events catastrophic for many providers.”
For the full very interesting article: https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?id=64062&utm_campaign=TMT&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9E4jpFAqBr1fYThi6pjc3ECIrkJtF4-urerPcLF78JmZ4BixUPkxoA-ngiRvbPx06ORd5U2bsbiOEFK-CaqUP6-URb8jMZ6SEHyZL-aPXwfFmCQ9w&_hsmi=303492305&utm_content=303492305&utm_source=hs_email
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